Sirat Ibn Hisham 1338
The affair of Fadak in the account of Khaybar
[ مَقْتَلُ ابْنِ سَهْلٍ وَدِيَةُ الرَّسُولِ إلَى أَهْلِهِ ] فَأَقَامَتْ يَهُودُ عَلَى ذَلِكَ، لَا يَرَى بِهِمْ الْمُسْلِمُونَ بَأْسًا فِي مُعَامَلَتِهِمْ، حَتَّى عَدَوْا فِي عَهْدِ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ عَلَى عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ سَهْلِ، أَخِي بَنِي حَارِثَةَ، فَقَتَلُوهُ، فَاتَّهَمَهُمْ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ وَالْمُسْلِمُونَ عَلَيْهِ. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: فَحَدَّثَنِي الزُّهْرِيُّ عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ أَبِي حَثْمَةَ، وَحَدَّثَنِي أَيْضًا بُشَيْرُ بْنُ يَسَارٍ، مَوْلَى بَنِي حَارِثَةَ، عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ أَبِي حَثْمَةَ، قَالَ: أُصِيبَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ سَهْلٍ بِخَيْبَرِ، وَكَانَ خَرَجَ إلَيْهَا فِي أَصْحَابٍ لَهُ يَمْتَارُ مِنْهَا تَمْرًا، فَوُجِدَ فِي عَيْنٍ قَدْ كُسِرَتْ عُنُقُهُ، تَمَّ طُرِحَ فِيهَا، قَالَ: فَأَخَذُوهُ فَغَيَّبُوهُ، ثُمَّ قَدِمُوا عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ، فَذَكَرُوا لَهُ شَأْنَهُ، فَتَقَدَّمَ إلَيْهِ أَخُوهُ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ سَهْلٍ، وَمَعَهُ ابْنَا عَمِّهِ حُوَيِّصَةُ وَمُحَيِّصَةُ ابْنَا مَسْعُودٍ، وَكَانَ عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ مِنْ أَحْدَثِهِمْ سِنًّا، وَكَانَ صَاحِبَ الدَّمِ، وَكَانَ ذَا قَدَمٍ فِي الْقَوْمِ، فَلَمَّا تَكَلَّمَ قَبْلَ ابْنَىْ عَمِّهِ، قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ: الْكُبْرَ الْكُبْرَ. قَالَ ابْنُ هِشَامٍ: وَيُقَالُ: كَبِّرْ كَبِّرْ - فِيمَا ذَكَرَ مَالِكُ بْنُ أَنَسٍ - فَسَكَتَ، فَتَكَلَّمَ حُوَيِّصَةُ وَمُحَيِّصَةُ، ثُمَّ تَكَلَّمَ هُوَ بَعْدُ، فَذَكَرُوا لِرَسُولِ اللَّهِ ﷺ قَتْلَ صَاحِبِهِمْ، فَقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ: أَتُسَمُّونَ قَاتِلَكُمْ، ثُمَّ تَحْلِفُونَ عَلَيْهِ خَمْسِينَ يَمِينًا فَنُسَلِّمُهُ إلَيْكُمْ ؟ قَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، مَا كُنَّا لِنَحْلِفَ عَلَى مَا لَا نَعْلَمُ قَالَ: أَفَيَحْلِفُونَ بِاَللَّهِ خَمْسِينَ يَمِينًا مَا قَتَلُوهُ وَلَا يَعْلَمُونَ لَهُ قَاتِلًا ثُمَّ يَبْرَءُونَ مِنْ دَمِهِ ؟ قَالُوا: يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ، مَا كُنَّا لِنَقْبَلَ أَيْمَانَ يَهُودَ، مَا فِيهِمْ مِنْ الْكُفْرِ أَعْظَمُ مِنْ أَنْ يَحْلِفُوا عَلَى إثْمٍ قَالَ: فَوَدَاهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ مِنْ عِنْدِهِ مِئَةَ نَاقَةٍ. قَالَ سَهْلٌ: فَوَاَللَّهِ مَا أَنْسَى بَكْرَةً مِنْهَا حَمْرَاءَ ضَرَبَتْنِي وَأَنَا أَحُوزُهَا. قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إبْرَاهِيمَ بْنِ الْحَارِثِ التَّيْمِيُّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ بُجَيْدِ بْنِ قَيْظِيٍّ، أَخِي بَنِي حَارِثَةَ، قَالَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إبْرَاهِيمَ: وَاَيْمُ اللَّهِ، مَا كَانَ سَهْلٌ بِأَكْثَرَ عِلْمًا مِنْهُ، وَلَكِنَّهُ كَانَ أَسَنَّ - مِنْهُ، إنَّهُ قَالَ لَهُ: وَاَللَّهِ مَا هَكَذَا كَانَ الشَّأْنُ وَلَكِنَّ سَهْلًا أَوْهَمَ، مَا قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ احْلِفُوا عَلَى مَا لَا عِلْمَ لَكُمْ بِهِ، وَلَكِنَّهُ كَتَبَ إلَى يَهُودَ خَيْبَرَ حِينَ كَلَّمَتْهُ الْأَنْصَارُ: إنَّهُ قَدْ وُجِدَ قَتِيلٌ بَيْنَ أَبْيَاتِكُمْ فَدُوهُ، فَكَتَبُوا إلَيْهِ يَحْلِفُونَ بِاَللَّهِ مَا قَتَلُوهُ، وَلَا يَعْلَمُونَ لَهُ قَاتِلًا. فَوَدَاهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ مِنْ عِنْدِهِ قَالَ ابْنُ إسْحَاقَ: وَحَدَّثَنِي عَمْرُو بْنُ شُعَيْبٍ مِثْلَ حَدِيثِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ بُجَيْدٍ، إلَّا أَنَّهُ قَالَ فِي حَدِيثِهِ: دُوهُ أَوْ ائْذَنُوا بِحَرْبِ. فَكَتَبُوا يَحْلِفُونَ بِاَللَّهِ مَا قَتَلُوهُ وَلَا يَعْلَمُونَ لَهُ قَاتِلًا، فَوَدَاهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ مِنْ عِنْدِهِ
Translation
✧ [The killing of Ibn Sahl and the Messenger's blood-money to his family] The Jews persisted in that, with the Muslims seeing no harm in dealing with them, until they transgressed during the era of the Messenger of God ﷺ against ʿAbd Allāh b. Sahl, brother of the Banū Ḥārithah, and killed him; so the Messenger of God ﷺ and the Muslims suspected them of it. Ibn Isḥāq said: Al-Zuhrī narrated to me from Sahl b. Abī Ḥathmah, and Bushayr b. Yasār, client of the Banū Ḥārithah, also narrated to me from Sahl b. Abī Ḥathmah, who said: ʿAbd Allāh b. Sahl was struck down at Khaybar. He had gone out there with companions of his to procure dates from it, and he was found in a spring with his neck broken, then thrown into it. He said: They took him and buried him, then came to the Messenger of God ﷺ and mentioned his affair to him. His brother ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Sahl came forward to him, and with him were his two paternal cousins, Ḥuwayyiṣah and Muḥayyiṣah, the two sons of Masʿūd. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān was the youngest of them in age, and he was the owner of the blood, and he had standing among the people. When he spoke before his two paternal cousins, the Messenger of God ﷺ said: "The elder, the elder." Ibn Hishām said: And it is said: "Let the elder speak, let the elder speak" – as Mālik b. Anas mentioned – so he fell silent, and Ḥuwayyiṣah and Muḥayyiṣah spoke, then he spoke after that. They mentioned to the Messenger of God ﷺ the killing of their companion, and the Messenger of God ﷺ said: "Will you name your killer, then swear fifty oaths against him, and we will hand him over to you?" They said: "O Messenger of God, we would not swear to what we do not know." He said: "Then will they swear by God fifty oaths that they did not kill him and do not know a killer for him, and then be absolved of his blood?" They said: "O Messenger of God, we would not accept the oaths of the Jews; the disbelief in them is greater than that they should swear to a sin." He said: So the Messenger of God ﷺ paid his blood-money from his own resources: one hundred she-camels. Sahl said: By God, I shall not forget a red young she-camel of them that kicked me while I was driving them. Ibn Isḥāq said: Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. al-Ḥārith al-Taymī narrated to me from ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Bujayd b. Qayẓī, brother of the Banū Ḥārithah. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm said: By God, Sahl was not more knowledgeable than him, but he was older than him – that he said to him: By God, the affair was not like this, but Sahl erred. The Messenger of God ﷺ did not say, "Swear to what you have no knowledge of," but he wrote to the Jews of Khaybar when the Anṣār spoke to him: "A slain man has been found among your dwellings, so pay his blood-money." They wrote to him swearing by God that they did not kill him and do not know a killer for him. So the Messenger of God ﷺ paid his blood-money from his own resources. Ibn Isḥāq said: ʿAmr b. Shuʿayb narrated to me the like of the tradition of ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Bujayd, except that he said in his tradition: "Pay his blood-money or give notice of war." So they wrote swearing by God that they did not kill him and do not know a killer for him, and the Messenger of God ﷺ paid his blood-money from his own resources.
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